Google Earth 7.1 - planet is spinning like crazy

Hi,
today when I opened Google Earth, the window came up, the overlays loaded and then the planet startet to spin like crazy. Everything I tried did not stop the spinning. It spins fast and constantly moves from north to west and back to north. It is unusable and I have no clue, where that is coming from. I googled the problem and could not really find any usable info, that's why I am posting it here now.
I have rebootet my machine, deleted the app and redownloaded it from Google to no avail. Still doing the same crazy thing. I just used it last week a few times and all was fine. I have not done any hardware changes or hook ups to my iMac since then. For all the years I use Google Earth, I have never had anything like that.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Peter

Check your USB devices.
I had the same problem and went through the whole delete and reinstall the application rigmarole, including preferences and everything that I could find, even in the hidden /User/Libray folder, and nothing worked until I Googled the problem and found the answer: that by unplugging my (rarely used) USB steering wheel, quitting Google Earth (easier said than done as it was very sluggish in responding) then restarting Google Earth, the application now works perfectly.
Relief!
So it seems that, in my case, a USB device was sending the earth into a spin.

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# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.
Driver "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.
# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
# VideoRam 256
# Clocks 25.2 28.3
EndSection
# Device configured by xorgconfig:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
#VideoRam 262144
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "ColorTiling" "on"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "yes"
Option "EXAVSync" "yes"
Option "ForceTVOut" "true"
Option "TVStandard" "ntsc"
EndSection
# Screen sections
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "ATI Radeon"
Monitor "Acer Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1200x800"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
# ServerLayout sections.
# Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
# the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
# section may be specified from the X server command line with the
# "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
# When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
# is used alone.
Section "ServerLayout"
# The Identifier line must be present
Identifier "Simple Layout"
# Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
# the relative position of other screens. The four names after
# primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
# of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the
# right of screen 1.
Screen "Screen 1"
# Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
# optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
# used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
# "SendCoreEvents".
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Here's my drirc:
<driconf>
<device screen="0" driver="r300">
<application name="Default">
<option name="force_s3tc_enable" value="false" />
<option name="texture_coord_units" value="8" />
<option name="fthrottle_mode" value="2" />
<option name="disable_stencil_two_side" value="false" />
<option name="tcl_mode" value="3" />
<option name="texture_depth" value="0" />
<option name="fp_optimization" value="0" />
<option name="def_max_anisotropy" value="1.0" />
<option name="no_rast" value="false" />
<option name="command_buffer_size" value="8" />
<option name="round_mode" value="0" />
<option name="dither_mode" value="0" />
<option name="disable_lowimpact_fallback" value="true" />
<option name="texture_image_units" value="8" />
<option name="disable_s3tc" value="false" />
<option name="color_reduction" value="1" />
<option name="vblank_mode" value="1" />
</application>
<application name="Google Earth" executable="googleearth">
</application>
</device>
</driconf>
Last edited by coolpyrofreak (2009-07-03 05:56:18)

I had the same problem (slow googleearth) with ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1 (IGP 320m).
This .drirc solves it. I don't have an xorg.conf.
- no need for the 'disable_lowimpact_fallback' option
- no need to turn off 'atmosphere'
cat .drirc
<driconf>
<device screen="0" driver="radeon">
<application name="Default">
<option name="force_s3tc_enable" value="false" />
<option name="no_rast" value="false" />
<option name="fthrottle_mode" value="2" />
<option name="tcl_mode" value="3" />
<option name="texture_depth" value="0" />
<option name="def_max_anisotropy" value="1.0" />
<option name="no_neg_lod_bias" value="false" />
<option name="texture_units" value="3" />
<option name="dither_mode" value="0" />
<option name="hyperz" value="true" />
<option name="round_mode" value="0" />
<option name="color_reduction" value="1" />
<option name="vblank_mode" value="0" />
<option name="allow_large_textures" value="1" />
</application>
</device>
</driconf>

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